self-authenticating

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adj. In the law of evidence, a piece of evidence which will automatically be presumed authentic for purposes of admissibility based on the character of the evidence itself. Examples include certified copy of public or business records, official publications of government agencies, and newspaper articles.

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And that's the key issue here at TT, because the results do not have self-authenticating interpretations stamped on their foreheads.

In the end, it may not be that goodness is self-authenticating as good, but that the struggle is to define as good that which is loving and selfless and kind, to define it as good first for ourselves, and then to seek to win others to that point of view.

Nor does Calvin mean to say (nor is it any part of the model to assert) that Scripture is self-authenticating in the sense that it offers evidence for itself or somehow proves itself to be accurate or reliable.